Namaskar ShadyWilbury,

I myself find it difficult to hold up the 108 beaded malas. So, I use a 27 beaded mala and go around it four times. Here's a tool that can help you out:

http://www.indiayogi.com/eshop/product- … uctid=1834

It's called a danda. You can use it to balance your arm out and hold the mala that way. I've never used one, but yogis use them all the time.

From this site, the shipping to America (assuming that's where you are) is expensive. There should be other places that carry them.

Here's another site, but I don't know if they're still in business, but you could check them out:

http://www.healthandyoga.com/html/produ … _danda.asp

I don't think letting the mala drape over your leg is a problem. However, the Hare Krishna store at the below URL sells mala bags that just rest on the floor and you put the mala inside it and perform japa that way:

http://www.thekrishnastore.com/Search.b … p_home-med

Regards,

ganesh_bhakta

Namaskar ShadyWilbury,

I myself find it difficult to hold up the 108 beaded malas. So, I use a 27 beaded mala and go around it four times. Here's a tool that can help you out:

http://www.indiayogi.com/eshop/product- … uctid=1834

It's called a danda. You can use it to balance your arm out and hold the mala that way. I've never used one, but yogis use them all the time.

From this site, the shipping to America (assuming that's where you are) is expensive. There should be other places that carry them.

Here's another site, but I don't know if they're still in business, but you could check them out:

http://www.healthandyoga.com/html/produ … _danda.asp

I don't think letting the mala drape over your leg is a problem. However, the Hare Krishna store at the below URL sells mala bags that just rest on the floor and you put the mala inside it and perform japa that way:

http://www.thekrishnastore.com/Search.b … p_home-med

Regards,

ganesh_bhakta

nvm Ganeshaji already mentioned it :D

Hari Om!

Kabir's Reply:

maalaa fort jauga Bayaa‚ imaTa na mana ka for
kr ka manaka CaoD, do‚ mana ka manaka for

Translation
Eons have passed whirling rosary, restless remains the mind 
Give up the beads of rosary and rotate the beads of mind

Its not where the Japa Mala [beads] are ... but where the mind is that matters. Who is there to take offence ? if your mind is set on God... who cares how u hold the mala or where it is kept ?

Let the mind remain fixed on the God within that is most important.

Love!
Silence